In article <475a1c2d$1@news.povray.org>, dne### [at] sanrrcom says...
> Patrick Elliott wrote:
> > This isn't how science, never 
> > mind logic, works. You have to prove something happened *first*, then
 
> > explain it, not make up a mess of explanations for why it did happen,
 
> > then insist that because you have a lot of excuses for why it makes 
> > sense to you, it is therefor real.
> 
> And, just for general edification, *this* is what "begging the question"
 
> means.  "The Bible is true because it says so, right there in the 
> Bible!" :-) It doesn't mean asking the question or raising the question.
> 
Its sometimes also called, in a specific context, "arguing from 
incredulity", i.e., its so incredibly unlikely that the only explanation 
is the one I believe. The easiest dismissal of that argument though is 
simply that if you generate a random number, with any arbitrary large 
number of digits, never mind if its mathematically derived, or done by 
counting entirely random quantum particles, as they form in a vacuum, 
the odds of that number coming up can be extremely unlikely, to 
theoretically infinitely impossible, yet *some* number must come up, and 
its no more or less unlikely than any of the other n-1/n possible 
numbers in that set.

So, any number that is too big to *feel* and which they fail on an 
intellectual level to understand either, becomes nearly infinite and 
therefor impossible, hence, only God could have managed it.

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